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Performing Arts Snowball

When: Sep 22, 2010 12:00 am

Performing Arts Snowball – Event for theater, dance and circus professionals
22nd – 26th September 2010 Shanghai.

Organized and produced by the Finnish Theatre Information Centre in collaboration with Dance Info Finland, Circus Info Finland, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center and Shanghai 12th International Arts Festival, Performing Arts Snowball is an export and networking event for performing arts professionals organized as part of the cultural programme of the Shanghai 2010 World Expo.

The event is organized with the support of Ministry of Education and Ministry of Employment and the Economy with the aim of encouraging Finnish-Chinese collaboration by establishing networks between performing arts professionals of the two countries. The objective of the event is to encourage cultural collaborations and exchange and to create long-term relations between Finnish and Chinese performing arts professionals.

The four-day event consist of a series of seminars, panel discussions, showcase performances , networking events and visits. The programme is also a part of Chinese performing arts seminar for Chinese producers and includes a tour to the Shanghai Expo. Central themes of the event will be the current state of performing arts in Finland and China,possible collaborations and discourse on themes relating to productions.

The main organizer of the event is TINFO Finnish Theatre Information Centre. Previous events in the Shanghai Snowball series have included events organized by Music Export Finland, Design Forum and Finnish Architecture Association SAFA.

For further information, please contact:
Mia Erlin, Project Manager, snowball@teatteri.org, +358 (0)41 725 2041

TINFO Finnish Theatre Information Centre, Meritullinkatu 33 A, 00170
Helsinki, Finland
Tel. +358 (0)9 2511 2120, tinfo@teatteri.org

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MOOMINTROLL’S 65th THE BIRTHDAY PARTY WILL BE DANCED IN SHANGHAI EXPO ON AUGUST 9TH – 11TH.

When: Aug 9, 2010 1:00 pm

DON’T TELL THIS TO MOOMIN. THIS IS A SURPRISE!

Dancing Moominvalley Shanghai EXPO Crossmedia Artwork celebrates the Birthdays of Moomintroll and artist Tove Jansson

Moominvalley is dancing. The Moomins dance, their friends dance, even nature itself dances and makes the Moominvalley inhabitants dance, also in China.  Dance Theatre MD, Tampere Art Museum Moominvalley, Heikki Mäenpää & Moominvalley Orchestra, Moomin Characters Ltd and Moomin Friends association with their partners bring glimpses of Finnish culture aimed for the whole family to Shanghai EXPO. These events will be a part of Cultural Programme Finland at World EXPO 2010.

The three day events timed on artist Tove Jansson’s birthday contains concerts and contemporary dance at the Expo area, Europe square. Finnish pavilion serves as the meeting place for Moomin experts from all over the world. A Digigraphie replica exhibition which depicts among other things movement and dance in Tove Jansson’s art is opened in the Conference and VIP area of the of the Finnish pavilion. The original pieces of art can be seen in Tampere Art Museum Moominvalley.

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Dancing Moominvalley Shanghai EXPO programme

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Shows August 9th-11th 2010

9th, 10th & 11th August, 1pm

Heikki Mäenpää & MOOMINVALLEY ORCHESTRA with Dance Theatre MD:

MUSICAL LANDSCAPES FROM DANCING MOOMINVALLEY  -Concerts for the Whole Family

Composed and created by: Heikki Mäenpää

Music and movement inspired by the Art of Tove Jansson. What will happen when Snufkin plays his harmonica and his best friend Moomintroll playes the double bass? That will be seen when Moomin Family and their friends sing and dance with the musicians and the audience.

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9th, 10th & 11th August, 7 pm

Dance Theatre MD:

DANCING MOOMINVALLEY -Contemporary Dance Theatre Performance

Choreography by Samuli Roininen, music by Heikki Mäenpää

Based on Tove Jansson’s book “The Tales from the Moominvalley”, The Dancing Moominvalley is a family dance adventure that begins with Snufkin’s search for his missing spring tune. The versatile Dancing Moominvalley ensemble leads the audience into a magical place of searching, learning and life’s little and big wonders.

The performance opens Jansson’s well known themes: invisibility, otherness and difference.

Visually spectacular, fully composed contemporary dance piece for the whole family has a new approach to the moomins but the themes are familiar to all of us who have read the books.

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TOVE JANSSON DIGIGRAPHIE ARTS DANCING MOOMINVALLEY SHANGHAI EXPO-EXHIBITION

August 9th – 25th in the Conference and VIP area of the of the Finnish pavilion

www.dancingmoominvalley.com

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Finland Day on 27th May

When: May 27, 2010 12:00 am

Countries participating in the Shanghai Expo will have one day during the six months of the Expo when the spotlight will be on that particular country. Finland Day on the 27^th May marks an opportunity for Finland to showcase its culture in Shanghai. The day’s programme is filled with performances by over 100 artists in five different venues on the Expo grounds – Expo Center, Music Club, Europe Square, Dock 1 and the Finnish Pavilion. Finland is presenting a broad repertoire of performances for the expected 400 000 daily visitors to the Expo area.

Finland day opens with official opening in the morning at the Expo Center and ends the same evening in the same place with a Finland gala performed for an audience of 2500 people consisting of official delegations, Finns and Finnish networks in China and regular visitors.

The gala programme is scripted around the Finnish participation themes and includes various collaborative projects between Finnish and Chinese artists. The artists performing on Finland Day include jazz group Five Corners Quintet, traditional folk/experimental musician Kimmo Pohjonen, rock group Negative, folk metal band Turisas, metal heavyweights Stratovarius and the musical stylings of DJ collective Top Billin. Performances also include of Tove Jansson’s Moomin Pappa at Sea, Finnish National Ballet and contemporary circus performers Walo & Hakkarainen.

More information to follow shortly!

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Tero Saarinen Company & Stravinsky Evening

When: May 26, 2010 8:00 pm

Acclaimed modern dance ensemble Tero Saarinen Company pays a visit to Shanghai and the Shanghai Expo with Stravinsky Evening (Petrushka/HUNT) at the Shanghai Centre Theatre on 26th of May. Tero Saarinen Company’s Stravinsky Evening features two powerful contemporary reinterpretations of Russian composer Igor Stravinsky’s (1882-1971) classics: Petrushka and The Rite of Spring. Known for his works composed specifically for dance, Stravinsky was perhaps the most influential composer of the 20th century. Major choreographers all over the world have created their own responses to Stravinsky’s scores. Tero Saarinen is now widely considered to be the leading Stravinsky interpreter of his generation. Tero Saarinen Company’s Stravinsky Evening begins with Petrushka, an eternally moving triangle drama accompanied by exquisite live music. The performance ends with HUNT, Saarinen’s intensely powerful solo with its multilayered themes including masculinity and femininity, alienation and the fading of beauty. This masterpiece has moved audiences and critics worldwide: it has won prizes and award nominations equally for its choreography, innovative use of technology, and Tero Saarinen’s unforgettable interpretation.

Additionally, Tero Saarinen will hold for professional dancers the Master Class at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center on the 24th of May. Saarinen will also be attending the Finland Day with an artist meet-and-greet on the 27th of May, courtesy of the City of Turku, the 2011 Capital of Culture.

Tero Saarinen Company: Stravinsky Evening (Petrushka/HUNT) 26th May 2010, 8.00 pm.

Shanghai Centre Theatre, 1376 Nanjing Road West

Tickets 100, 150, 250 and VIP 380 RMB. Tickets can be purchased from the following websites:

http://www.vipticket.cn/html/ticket-3667.htm

http://www.shtickets.cn/scripts/ticketing/product/9335.html

http://www.tickets.com.cn/newtickets/ticketing/product.asp?productname=%B7%D2%C0%BCTERO+SAARINEN+COMPANY%CF%D6%B4%FA%CE%E8%B5%B8%CD%C5%CF%D6%B4%FA%CE%E8%D7%A8%B3%A1%A1%AA%A1%AA+%CB%B9%CC%D8%C0%AD%CE%C4%CB%B9%B

Choreographer and dancer Tero Saarinen is one of the world’s most highly acclaimed and unique dance artists. Tero Saarinen Company, founded in 1996, is a leading Finnish cultural export. The group has performed in almost 40 countries, receiving high praise from critics and audiences alike.

www.terosaarinen.com

www.turku2011.fi

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Moominpappa at Sea

When: May 15, 2010 12:00 am

The much-loved original Moomin story was created by Tove Jansson in 1940. The story of the Moomins will be performed as a drama in China for the first time, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Finland.

15.5. Moominpappa at sea, Shanghai Grand Theatre/Drama Theatre, 2 shows/day

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